The ESA 2010 is applied from the reporting date December 2014, following the changeover from the ESA 95 system.

Comparisons between the Austrian provinces are of limited usefulness as supraregionally operating banks are always allocated to the head office location (UniCredit Bank Austria AG is, for instance, allocated to Vienna).

Note that changes to the underlying data became effective in Q2 2017. These changes were due to a clarification and methodological harmonization of reporting guidelines (harmonization of borrower classification; revolving loans are no longer reported as due at maturity, while cash advances are all reported as due at maturity).